Comments | mister_borogove: Rewriting History, one episode of Star Trek at a time

mister_borogove

Rewriting History, one episode of Star Trek at a time

Mar 27, 2006 21:04

So I'm sitting here watching classic original Star Treks. They're gloriously cheesy.

I'm inventing epilogues or back stories or side stories that totally undermine the original storyline for each episode -- the way Niven ruined the Beowulf Shaeffer stories from Neutron Star with the framing story in Crashlander. (Retconning, that's the word.)

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the overwrought-fanfic perspective merde March 28 2006, 06:39:15 UTC

Mitchell and Dehner staged their fight ... They have a planet all to themselves, at least 20 years until the next ore ships call.ten years later, long after their union has become stale and meaningless, a burst of strange radiation from space causes them to change bodies temporarily. this sets the stage for a tender and moving episode in which they learn to understand each other better -- both in and out of the bedroom! while inhabiting Mitchell's body, Dehner becomes pregnant and must carry the child to term. we laugh and cry with the hapless couple as Dehner is truly forced to go where no man has gone before ( ... )

veritatem March 28 2006, 06:43:23 UTC

if i've seen either of those, and i probably have, i've totally forgotten them. but the one where people were getting turned into little dodecahedrons and then crumbled into ash, that one i remember. scarred me for a little while. in case you couldn't tell.

slurketta March 28 2006, 07:47:11 UTC

Ha! There should be a special "Ruined by Retcon" Hall of Fame. John Byrne Phoenix resurrection, anyone? Perhaps the authors could be presented with an award that looks like a handsome brass goblet, but turns into dried-up cat turds when they get home.

mister_borogove March 28 2006, 16:00:53 UTC

Gah! Retcon! How is it that the word would not come to mind at all last night?

occlupanid March 28 2006, 19:29:52 UTC

that's an aspect of long-running comics that drives me INSANE. the total reconning and expansion of every aspect of a character's life. Couldn't Cyclops's dad be just "some guy"? Couldn't cyclops get his eye-problem by an injury to the head? Does everybody have to have a sibling / estranged father who is evil? Gives me the gr it does.